<A HREF="http://www.cio.com/article/130351/Survey_Most_IT_Departments_Use_Virtualization">More than half of IT organizations are using virtualization technologies,</A> according to a vendor-sponsored survey.

Rackspace sponsored a study of 245 customers of its managed hosting business and found that 57 percent of their internal infrastructures were virtualized. Of those surveyed, 72 percent said they would host business-critical applications on virtual machines.